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It is Time to 

Accord Recognition to 

President Obregon 

and Mexico 



By 
William Randolph Hearst 



WHY WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE 
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT 



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There was ample reason why the United States should 
not recognize the Government of Carranza, which was 
nothing more than an authorized state of protracted an- 
archy; but what reason is there why we should not 
recognize the established and universally supported Gov- 
ernment of General Obregon, which has almost entirely 
restored law and order and civilized conditions in 
Mexico; a government which not only maintains the 
peaceful and ethical conditions of civilized society, but 
offers the friendship and encouragement to citizens of 
the United States in Mexico which have so long been 
denied them? 



IT IS TIME TO RECOGNIZE 
THE PRESENT STABLE 
GOVERNMENT of MEXICO 

By 
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 



The jour articles reproduced in this 
pamphlet originally appeared in the 
following newspapers: 



The New York American 

The New York Evening Journal 

The Washington Times 

The Chicago Herald and Examiner 

The Chicago American 

The San Francisco Examiner 



The Boston Advertiser 
The Boston American 
The Atlanta Georgian 
The Wisconsin News 
The Detroit Times 
The Los Angeles Examiner 



The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 



119 West 40 th Street.NewYork. 






Copyright, 1922, by 

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 



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THE OBREGON GOVERNMENT 

SHOULD NOW BE 

RECOGNIZED 

{Published August 24.^ 1921) 

WHY do not the United States of 
America and the RepubHc of Mexico 
come to an agreement that will prop- 
erly protect the citizens of the United States 
and permit the recognition by the United 
States of the present Government of Mexico, 
which is eminently a good government? 

President Obregon is a capable, conserva- 
tive man. He has largely restored law and 
order and civilized conditions in Mexico. He 
is very friendly to Americans. It would 
seem very difficult to secure in all Mexico a 
better man for President than General Obre- 
gon. Therefore, if recognition of President 
Obregon's government will help him in his 
task of fully restoring peace and order in his 
country — a task which all the world, and our 

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8 It is Time to Accord Recognition to 

country particularly, must sincerely desire to 
see accomplished — ^why cannot an agreement 
be reached which will bring about that rec- 
ognition on terms equally satisfactory to 
Mexico and to the United States ? 

The United States cannot expect that 
Mexico will surrender her sovereignty as an 
independent nation and consent to any defi- 
nite limitation of her just powers and privi- 
leges of government, nor can Mexico expect 
that the United States will ever again main- 
tain the shameful indifference to the lives 
and the property rights of her citizens that 
this country exhibited during the Wilson 
Administration. 

There has been but one such Administra- 
tion In the whole history of this nation, and, 
please God, there will never be another. 

No more will the policies of our great coun- 
try be determined by the exaggerated ego- 
tism of one unbalanced autocrat. No more 
will an affront to his vanity plunge the na- 
tion into war, while murder and outrage of 
American citizens and insults to the whole 
nation are passed unheeded. 



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The present Administration of the United 
States Government is characteristically 
American. It regards itself as the servant 
of the people, placed in power to protect 
their interests. 

This Administration will surely permit no 
encroachment upon the just rights of its 
citizens in Mexico or elsewhere. 

Starting with that assumption, or rather 
with that obvious fact, and starting, also, 
with the evident inclination of the Mexican 
Administration to be very well disposed 
toward Americans, there should be no diffi- 
culty in reaching an agreement between the 
two nations which will properly define what 
adequate protection of American rights and 
interests means under international law and 
usage. 

Then let the United States promptly pro- 
ceed to recognize the Government of Gen- 
eral Obregon and to give that able executive 
full support in the great task of reconstruc- 
tion and rehabilitation that he has so capa- 
bly and courageously assumed. 

Peace throughout the world is the earnest 



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desire of the people of the United States, but 
particularly to be desired are peace, order 
and prosperity in Mexico, which is our im- 
mediate neighbor and which for many years 
preceding this last insurrection had been our 
good neighbor and good friend. 

And since peace and order and prosperity 
in Mexico and restored friendship between 
Mexico and the United States are our desire 
as a people and as a government, let us do 
our best to help secure it by a generous atti- 
tude towards Mexico and her established 
Government. 



MEXICAN RECOGNITION 
PROBLEM FOR PEOPLE 
OF AMERICA TO SOLVE 

El Paso, Texas Oct. 17, 1921 

PRESIDENT OBREGON, of Mexico, has 
given an interview to representatives of 
the press which contains statements sadly dis- 
couraging to those who are anxious to see the 
most cordial relations developed between the 
United States and Mexico. 

President Obregon says that official repre- 
sentatives of Mexico will not be present at 
the convention of nations to be held at 
Washington. This is genuinely distressing 
to Americans who believe in the policy of 
"America first" and the cultivation of 
friendly conditions and relations in America 
first. 

There might be representatives of Ar- 
menia, Eurania, China, Korea, Siam, the 

Congo Free State, Liberia or any kind of 

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12 It is Time to Accord Recognition to 

nation or pseudo nation In distant Europe, 
Asia, Africa and Australia at the historic as- 
sembly In Washington, but there will be no 
representative of peace and good will from 
our Important Immediate American neighbor 
and sister Republic of Mexico. 

Why? What Is the reason that the Gov- 
ernment of the United States of America 
does not recognize the present stable Gov- 
ernment of the Republic of Mexico ? 

There was ample reason why the United 
States should not recognize the Govern- 
ment of Carranza, which was nothing more 
than an authorized state of protracted an- 
archy; but what reason Is there why we 
should not recognize the established and 
universally supported Government of Gen- 
eral Obregon, which has almost entirely re- 
stored law and order and civilized conditions 
In Mexico; a Government which not only 
maintains the peaceful and ethical condi- 
tions of civilized society, but offers the friend- 
ship and encouragement to citizens of the 
United States In Mexico which have so 
long been denied them? 



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What is the United States asking of the 
Mexican Government in return for recogni- 
tion which the Mexican Government is un- 
willing to grant? The principle of our 
demand should be supremely simple. We 
should ask nothing of Mexico that we would 
not freely and fully grant to Mexico if that 
country made the request of us. And Mexico 
for its part should withhold no right from 
our citizens in Mexico which it would not 
wish withheld from its citizens in the 
United States. 

This is the plain principle of the Golden 
Rule applied to international relations, and 
it applies as aptly to politics and diplomacy 
as it does to religion, morality, business ac- 
tivity and all phases of human society. 

The situation between the United States 
and Mexico needs light. It needs the light 
of publicity. It is time that some of the fine 
phrases propounded by Mr. Wilson and 
never practised by him were actually put 
into political operation by the present more 
practical and apparently more genuine Amer- 
ican administration of President Harding. 



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What has become of the plan to abolish 
secret diplomacy for which as one object our 
idealistic American youth sacrificed their 
lives? What has become of the open cove- 
nants openly arrived at which were so in- 
spiring a watchword in our self-sacrificing 
crusade for democracy? 

Let us make our negotiations with Mexico 
a matter of democratic diplomacy. Let us 
take our citizens whose wisdom we so highly 
extol and so constantly ignore into the con- 
fidence of government. Let us make our 
public policy public. Is our Government 
negotiating with Mexico for the rights of 
our whole citizenship or for the special ad- 
vantage of certain financial interests? 

Friends of the Administration naturally 
suppose that the Government is considering 
only the public interest, but when Lamont, 
spokesman of the international bankers, 
rushes into print to say what shall be done 
in regard to Mexico some citizens feel jus- 
tified in entertaining a mild suspicion as to 
our purposes, or at least as to our agencies. 

Why should our Government be mys- 



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terious about its demands? Why should 
Mexico be secretive about its reply? There 
are more than technicalities at stake in this 
negotiation; there are the friendship and 
the intimate political, social and commercial 
relations of two great republican nations 
which are neighbors and which want to 
progress together in harmony and amity, in 
cordiality and healthful co-operation. It 
is the province of statesmen to find ways 
and means to enable them so to progress. 

The obstacles which stand in the way of 
recognition and cordial relations should be 
dissipated by actual concession and consider- 
ation. If statesmen cannot solve the prob- 
lem, let the public know the facts. The com- 
bined wisdom and friendly disposition of 
the people of the two sister Republics will 
accomplish the results which both desire. 



WHAT I FOUND IN A MONTH'S 
TRIP THROUGH MEXICO 

The Country is Now Orderly, Safe for Na- 
tives and Foreigners, Well Governed, 
Happy and Progressive 

El Paso, Texas, Nov. id, 192 i. 

I HAVE just returned to the United States 
after an interesting month in Mexico. 
If any American business men are anxious 
to know whether life and property are safe 
in Mexico I can only cite for their informa- 
tion my own life and my own properties. 

I have properties in the north of Mexico 
and in the south of Mexico. These proper- 
ties were in continual trouble and turmoil 
during the several preceding administrations, 
but have been in complete peace and secur- 
ity during the administration of President 
Obregon. 

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1 8 It is Time to Accord Recognition to 

Furthermore, to speak perfectly frankly, 
I would not have cared to venture person- 
ally into Mexico during some of these pre- 
vious administrations or maladministrations, 
but under this present administration I have 
travelled through Mexico by railroad, by 
automobile and by horseback, not only in 
the thickly populated centers, but also over 
infrequented highways and byways, both by 
day and by dead of night, and I have never 
experienced the slightest inconvenience nor 
witnessed the slightest disorder. 

All the Americans whom I met in Mexico 
have had practically the same experience 
that I have had and none of them can un- 
derstand why the United States Govern- 
ment recognized the Carranza administra- 
tion, which could not and did not protect 
American life and property in Mexico, and 
why our Government does not recognize the 
Obregon administration, which can and does 
protect American lives and interests. 

My viewpoint is purely the American view- 
point. I say that without hesitation. 

When a Mexican administration was in- 



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differently permitting the killing and out- 
raging of Americans, I was for intervention, 
but when any Mexican administration is 
protecting Americans in their lives and lib- 
erties, I am for recognition of that compe- 
tent and friendly administration. 

This protection of Americans is, I think, 
the main matter to be considered by our 
American people and by our American Gov- 
ernment. But, of course. President Obregon 
has done much more than merely protect 
Americans. He has protected his own peo- 
ple. He is restoring law and order and popu- 
lar rights and liberties completely through- 
out his whole country and for all classes, rich 
and poor alike. 

He is not a partisan of any class or 
clique. He is not playing favorites. He is 
endeavoring to do absolute justice. And it 
is because he is resting his orderly social 
and governmental structure upon the firm 
foundation of equal justice that I believe 
the peace and prosperity of Mexico will be 
permanent. 

As a matter of fact the principles and pol- 



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icies of President Obregon seem to me so 
sound and sincere that I could wish that 
some of our own statesmen would learn a 
lesson from him. 

To illustrate all that I have said above, 
let me review in some detail my trip through 
Mexico. When I left Los Angeles I was told 
not to go into Mexico by way of El Paso 
and Chihuahua, as the railroad was in terri- 
ble condition and was infested by bandits. 
The trip to Mexico City was much longer, 
however, by way of Laredo, so I determined 
to go by way of El Paso and Chihuahua. I 
found the roadbed to be on the average 
quite as good as our American roadbeds, and 
I found no bandits whatever, nor anything 
that resembled a bandit from one end of the 
road to the other. 

I stopped at various towns along the route 
to investigate conditions — at Aguas Calien- 
tes, at Silao, at the great mining town of 
Guanajuato, at Irapuato, in the center of 
a great agricultural district, at Celoya, and 
at Queretaro, famous in the history of Mexi- 
can independence. I went through these 



President Ohregon and Mexico 21 

towns usually in the street cars, talked with 
the people as best I could, and as none of 
them rose in protest against my bad Span- 
ish, I felt justified in concluding that they 
were at present at least a patient and peace- 
ful lot. 

In Mexico City itself I found the city con- 
siderably increased in size and population. 
It is now said to number a population of 
approximately a million. The streets are 
thronged, the shops are busy. The news- 
papers are lively and full of advertisements. 
The theaters are many and well patronized, 
and life seems to be going along as it does in 
any other big metropolis. 

Certainly the city is well policed and as 
safe by night as by day. 

I do not mean to say that there is no crime 
in Mexico, but apparently there is no more 
than there is in New York or any other big 
city, while the police in Mexico are extraor- 
dinarily prompt and efficient in their detec- 
tion and arrest of criminals. While in Mexico 
City I read that the pay car on one of the 
railroads had been robbed and seventy-five 



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thousand dollars stolen. In twenty-four 
hours the police had captured the thieves 
and had recovered the money. 

In some of the papers I read of a mail 
robbery of five hundred thousand dollars in 
New York City. These thieves have not yet 
been arrested and this money has not yet 
been recovered. 

I rode through the various suburbs of 
Mexico City in an automobile and found the 
people everywhere contentedly attending to 
their businesses I went over the mountains 
to Cuernavaca and talked with Governor 
Jose Porres there He said that his State 
had been m complete quiet for about a year, 
and that everything had settled back into 
the regular routine of civilized society. That 
statement meant much, because this region 
had been the stamping ground of the terri- 
ble Zapata, the most savage and destructive 
of Indian banditti, who sprang up during the 
revolutionary period. Now, however, the 
town of Cuernavaca is in complete quiet. 
The surrounding country, as far as the eye 
can see from the portales of the old palace of 



President Obregon and Mexico 23 

Cortez, is thriving in the peaceful pursuit of 
agriculture. 

On my return to Mexico City I had a long 
and extremely interesting interview with 
President Obregon. 

I found him quite confident that his 
country was completely and permanently 
restored to peace and order. The just and 
legitimate objects of the revolution had been 
accomplished. The Government had been 
wrested from the narrow, selfish control of 
the great landed aristocracy. A govern- 
ment of the people, by the people and for 
the people had been substituted, with ro- 
tation in oifice instead of a permanent 
dictatorship. The greatest good of the 
greatest number was the prime object of 
this Government. The people were contented 
because of the more liberal social and gov- 
ernment conditions. They were prosperous 
because they received a greater measure of 
the fruits of their industry. Peace was 
based on satisfaction with better conditions 
— order established upon recognized justice 
and equity. 



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President Obregon is a man who inspires 
confidence both in the excellence of his 
purposes and in his ability to carry his plans 
through to successful operation. He has a 
strong face, which portrays much force of 
character, but he has a pleasant smile, 
which gives evidence of a kindly disposition, 
and also an acute sense of humor. 

Like our great President Lincoln, however, 
he likes to give special point to his statements 
by a joke or a good story. He is a very human 
man. He speaks without pose or affectation, 
but with great dignity and impressiveness. 
He is a man of many-sided abilities — a 
successful business man, the possessor of 
large wealth, a brilliant military man, the 
most successful general the revolution pro- 
duced, a wise diplomat, as proven by his 
clever handling of the Villa situation, and a 
powerful executive, as shown by the achieve- 
ments of his administration to date. It is 
doubtful if another man in Mexico could be 
found with all the qualities so necessary for 
the successful handling of the reconstruc- 
tion situation, and if our country can 



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strengthen President Obregon's hands by 
recognition, and so help him In his great 
work, It would seem to be the worst of bad 
judgment for it not to do so. 

President Obregon told me that he hoped 
that I would go not only to the big centers, 
where most Americans went, but to some of 
the more distant districts In my tour. As 
this was also very much in accord with my 
own desires, I determined on my way back 
to the United States to go to the far end of 
some of the branch railways and then make 
horseback trips from there Into the interior. 
I went, therefore, to Uruapan first — the end 
of a line — :and rode from there through 
coffee plantations and banana plantations 
and ranches and rice fields. Everywhere I 
saw the people at work and apparently glad 
to be at work developing the products of 
their fields and farms. 

Then I went through Guadalajara to Co- 
llma, well down toward the west coast. 
There was considerable evidence of revolu- 
tionary destruction here, in razed buildings 
and looted churches, but all was peace and 



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quiet now and the work of restoration was 
in full progress. I rode from Colima all day 
and far into the night through the surrounding 
plantations up to the base of the great vol- 
cano. I saw nothing but order and industry. 

Returning late that night through deep 
barrancas and by lonely roads under the 
dim light of a thin moon, there was every 
opportunity for adventure, but none oc- 
curred. We passed occasional groups of 
horsemen or plodding peons, but we were 
never molested. If we were accosted at all 
it was only with a courteous " Adios, Sefior," 
"God be with you, Sefior," and sometimes 
I felt that we had need to have God with us 
in these solemn solitudes amid sub-tropical 
jungles, but we travelled in peace and re- 
turned in safety. All, too, without other 
guard than our guide, an aged Mexican who 
looked like a bandit, but talked and acted 
like the caballero that he was. 

When we got back to our car I gave him 
a gun in gratitude. He weighed it approv- 
ingly and said that if ever I had need he 
would gladly use it in my defense. 



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I said that I would remember, but that I 
thought I would never have greater need 
than I might have had that very night, 
which remark I meant rather seriously, but 
which he considered a bit of pleasantry 
and laughed at it accordingly. 

For the Mexicans themselves believe that 
their country is completely restored to peace 
and quiet, and that life and property are 
entirely safe. 

The Mexican people like their government. 
They know that no government that they 
have ever had has done one-half as much for 
their prosperity and progress. 

They know that the highest amount that 
was ever spent for schools under former ad- 
ministrations was nine million dollars a 
year, while the Obregon administration is 
spending over fifty million dollars on educa- 
tion, and purposes increasing that amount. 

They know that not only schoolboys, but 
all other civilizing influences are being de- 
veloped. They know that the railroads are 
being extended and improved, and that the 
great highways are being built from the rail- 



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road terminals into distant districts. They 
know that the telephone systems are being 
installed between towns, that electric light- 
ing systems are being put even into the 
smallest towns, that power is being devel- 
oped, that water systems are being improved 
for drinking purposes, for Irrigation purposes 
and for manufacturing purposes. 

They know that hospitals are being built 
and cleanliness and sanitation encouraged. 
They know that temperance legislation has 
passed in some States and is pending In 
others. They know that farm schools and 
manual training schools are being established 
to teach the farmers and the workingmen 
how to make the most and best out of their 
opportunities. 

They know that everything is being done 
to increase the Intelligence, the skill, the 
productivity, the per capita wealth, the hap- 
piness of the individual citizen. 

What they do not understand is why the 
United States, which Is supposed to be a 
progressive and democratic nation, does not 
recognize a sister republic which Is keeping 



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pace with it in progress and democracy, 
and in the effort for social betterment. 

General Ignacio Enriquez, capable and 
cultured governor of Chihuahua, distin- 
guished graduate of the University of Illi- 
nois, intense patriot, sincere democrat and 
profound thinker, declares that the Mexican 
revolution sprang from the mind of the 
United States of America — like Athena 
from the head of Zeus. 

Very many Mexican young men of the 
upper classes have been educated at Ameri- 
can schools and colleges. Many Mexican 
business men and workingmen in pursuit of 
their occupations have lived in America for 
protracted periods. 

All these men of all classes have come back 
to Mexico imbued with American ideas of 
political freedom, of equality before the law, 
of opportunity for individual and general 
betterment, and have desired to engraft 
those ideas upon the Mexican governmental 
system. 

Thus, says Governor Enriquez, the revo- 
lution started in those northern Mexican 



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States which were nearest to the United 
States, and was born of American thought 
and modeled on American customs. 

Why, then, should the United States 
hesitate to recognize this truly republican 
government which is in large measure the 
child of its own brain, and which seeks but 
to follow in the path of liberty and enlight- 
enment, of progress and prosperity which 
the United States itself has trod ? 

We Americans who have been in Mexico 
can only echo Governor Enriquez's per- 
plexed inquiry: "Why, indeed?" 



WHY IS THE FRIENDLY, 

ORDERLY, REPRESENTATIVE 

GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO 

NOT RECOGNIZED? 

{Published January 75, ig22) 

WHEN is the government of one nation 
"recognized" by the governments 
of other civilized nations ? 

The answer to this question is very simple 
— the practice hitherto invariable. 

The government of a nation is recognized, 
first, when it is representative of the nation it 
governs, when it holds office by the will and 
through the act of a sufficient majority of the 
people. 

The government of a nation is recognized, 
second, when it demonstrates that it is an 
efficient government, maintaining law and 
order and civilized conditions. 

The government of a nation is recognized, 
third, when it is a reasonably friendly govern- 

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ment to other nations, extending proper 
protection to the citizens of other nations in 
their political and property rights. 

The Government of the United States of 
Mexico conforms to all of these three re- 
quirements. 

Why, then, is it not recognized by the 
Government of the United States of Amer- 
ica? 

The government of Alvaro Obregon has 
been in office more than a year. 

It was elected overwhelmingly. It has 
been supported almost unanimously. 

It is, therefore, the most representative 
government that Mexico has had in the life 
of the present generation. 

The government of Alvaro Obregon re- 
stored peace in Mexico immediately upon its 
accession, and installed better order and a 
more generally approved and respected law, 
and more just and equitable and beneficial 
civilized conditions in Mexico than have 
ever prevailed in the history of the country. 

And finally, the government of Alvaro 
Obregon is more friendly to the United States 



President Obregon and Mexico 33 

of America and the people of the United 
States than any Government of Mexico has 
been for many years. 

The people of this country are invited into 
Mexico by the Obregon Government. 

They are protected while in Mexico by the 
Obregon Government. 

They are offered opportunity for invest- 
ment, and security for their investments; 
they constitute almost a favored class in the 
community, in the fact that many laws which 
are intended to regulate and restrict the 
property holdings of Mexican citizens do not 
apply to the citizens of the United States. 

The Obregon Government is not only 
friendly to the people of the United States, 
but to the Government of the United States, 
making our Government its model in many 
respects and always speaking and acting in 
the most friendly and generous way toward 
our Government and toward the individuals 
who constitute our Government; notwith- 
standing the fact that Mexico has encoun- 
tered so little courtesy and consideration — 
in fact, so great a lack of courtesy and con- 



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sideration — at the hands of this Govern- 
ment. 

There would appear to be then no reason, 
political or personal, why the Government of 
Mexico should not be recognized by the 
Government of the United States. 

And as a matter of fact there is no reason, 
political or personal, but there is said very 
plainly to be a financial reason. 

And the citizens of the United States must 
discover the truth about this situation, and 
this financial reason, although the truth may 
be rather humiliating to learn. 

The plain facts, as stated by various in- 
formed correspondents of these publica- 
tions, are that the international bankers con- 
tributed very largely to the campaign funds 
of the Republican party, and that these in- 
ternational bankers have since been seeking 
every opportunity to recoup themselves and 
make a handsome profit in addition, not only 
at the expense of the reputation of the Repub- 
lican party but at the sacrifice of the public 
welfare of the people of the United States. 

Consequently, instead of a patriotic and 



President Obregon and Mexico 35 

creditable diplomat going to Mexico to rep- 
resent this country and negotiate recogni- 
tion, Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, representative 
of the international bankers, was sent to 
Mexico and is declared to have submitted to 
the Mexican Government the proposition 
that it secure recognition by redeeming at 
120 a vast quantity of Mexican bonds which 
the international bankers had bought at an 
average of approximately 40. 

In other words, the price of recognition 
was many million dollars in blood money to 
be paid the international bankers. 

A proposition of this extraordinary, not to 
say outrageous, kind savors somewhat of 
blackmail; and it certainly is not an inspiring 
thing to think of the Government of the 
United States acting as agent of the inter- 
national bankers in an attempt to blackmail 
the Mexican Government out of many 
million undue and undeserved dollars as the 
price of recognition,which should be extended 
Mexico as a matter of right and justice and 
plain friendship between neighboring re- 
publics. 



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Perhaps the Government of the United 
States does not know to what extent it was 
used by the international bankers. 

Perhaps the Government of the United 
States does not know to what extent disap- 
pointed Big Interests have lately endeavored, 
unsuccessfully, to foment revolution in Mex- 
ico, and to overthrow a righteous and rightful 
government, whose only crime was that it 
would not bleed its people to pay blackmail 
to the international bankers. 

If the Government of the United States 
does not know these discreditable facts, the 
Hearst publications will proceed to establish 
them more and more day by day until the 
Government is convinced of these facts, 
and proceeds to consider the question of 
Mexican recognition upon its merits and 
apart from the selfish schemes of the 
international bankers and certain big oil in- 
terests. 

This article is being written not in the in- 
terest of the people of Mexico, but in the 
interest of the people of the United States. 

The friendship of the people of Mexico is 



President Ohregon and Mexico 37 

important to the United States in a com- 
mercial way and in a civic way. 

The good will of a country extending for 
so many miles along our frontier is of much 
more vital consequence in a military way 
than alliances with distant and fundamen- 
tally different peoples which can bring us 
nothing but complications and obligations. 

It is time our Government realized to what 
extent it is being misled by the selfish in- 
terests of the international bankers into alien 
associations which can do us no good and into 
neighboring enmities which may do us much 
harm. 

It is time our Government paid less atten- 
tion to the interests and influences of the 
international bankers and gave more heed to 
the will and the welfare of the American 
people. 



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